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Görlinger, Marco; Stöver, Jana; Vöpel, Henning; … - 2012

Gesundheit wird oft als das "höchste Gut" im Leben eines Menschen bezeichnet. Nach Definition der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) bedeutet Gesundheit nicht allein "die Abwesenheit von Krankheit", sondern bezeichnet "einen Zustand vollständigen körperlichen, geistigen und sozialen...

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Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2004

This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997), originally proposed by Leser (1961). It builds on an approach to seasonal adjustment suggested by Leser (1963) and Schlicht (1981, 1984). A moments estimator for the smoothing parameter is proposed...

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Trend Extraction From Time Series With Structural Breaks

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2007

Trend extraction from time series is often performed by using the filter proposed by Leser (1961), also known as the …

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Trend Extraction From Time Series With Missing Observations

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2007

Trend extraction from time series is often performed by using the filter proposed by Leser (1961), also known as the …

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Trend-cycle decomposition for Peruvian GDP: Application of an alternative method

Guillén, Ángel; Rodríguez, Gabriel - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-44

Perron and Wada (J Monet Econ 56:749-65, 2009) propose a new method of decomposition of the GDP in its trend and cycle …, which presents a mixture of normals in the disturbances of the trend and cycle component of output. The obtained trend … clearly reflects the structural change undergone in the early 1990s. After a steep decrease of the trend or potential GDP as a …

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Long-term trends in income distribution: A global perspective

Obst, Thomas - 2015

are most pronounced in the advanced economies. The emerging economies also exhibit an upward trend in national income, but … it has been less substantial. The least developed economies, however, have been detached from this trend and remain …

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Social policies and redistribution in South Africa

Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014

This paper aims at analyzing the effects of social policies on income inequalities in South Africa since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, the heritage of a distributional regime based on institutional racism is highlighted. This had lasting effects on social...

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Wage dispersion: Empirical developments, explanations, and reform options

Herr, Hansjörg; Ruoff, Bea - 2014

Market driven wage dispersion is a critical feature of income inequality. In this paper especially the Keynesian perspective on how to explain the global trends of rising wage dispersion is elaborated. Special attention is given to the policy implications derived from the analysis. Keynesian...

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Progressive tax reform in OECD countries: Perspectives and obstacles

Godar, Sarah; Paetz, Christoph; Truger, Achim - 2014

policies over the last decades. Despite some signs that this trend may have recently come to a halt a comprehensive policy …

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Social policies and redistribution in Brazil

Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014

This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial society, marked by the institution of slavery....

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